I'm starting to get excited for our trip. If you have a chance to shoot me the names of any particular wineries or hikes, along with recommendations for weekday vs. weekend, I'll prepare a skeleton itinerary with directions and look for other things along the routes such as good restaurants or interesting sights. Might be easier at home with a computer/printer setup. We can still go with the flow if preferred, even if we have a tentative itinerary drawn up.
I tried applying some of the alignment principles Joan has been teaching us in her Pilates class during the ballet DVD and found they made it somewhat easier. My biggest problem was engaging my upper trapezius and allowing my shoulder blades to ride up. Keeping them down and basing my arm movements from the beneath the shoulder blades allows more space to engage the upper parts of the core and more support.
Sat down to print some maps to/from cottage and noticed a slight problem. I don't have the actual address of the cottage yet. I emailed the owner to get this little vital piece of information along with her check-in procedure. She told me a while back she would email me the code to get in so I expect I'd hear from her soon, but best to get the actual location asap. Looks like about 1 1/2 hours to the south entrance of Shenandoah from the general area of the cottage.
Got address and entrance code email. Good to go.
Food:
8:00 am 1 c Quaker Oat Squares, 1/2 c light original soy milk, 1/4 large cantaloupe, 149 g blueberries, coffee
12:00 pm 2 pc French toast, 1.5 tbl whipped butter, 1 tbl pancake syrup, coffee
3:15 pm Cran-Pomegranate drink mix w/32 oz water, 1 pkg Cranberry Almond Thins
4:00 pm 3 spoonfuls hot fudge sauce, cold from fridge (Bad girl!)
6:30 pm 1/2 c 1% cottage cheese, chives, large peach, 10 oz skim milk, slice cherry crisp, 1/2 c vanilla ice cream
Exercise:
7:00-7:50 am Brutal ballet DVD
2 comments:
Shenandoah is the national park that we would do most of the hiking in. Old Rag is the big, impressive hike that I really enjoy and I think you'll be able to do - but look through the info and see if you agree; I would suggest parking at the Berry Hollow Parking (PDF) on that map, rather than the main parking; it'll be a lot less crowded. Also on that map is the Cedar Run/Whiteoak Circuit - it's classified as "very strenuous" but I really enjoyed it and the only reason I thought it was hard was because it was raining. It's really very pretty.
The 2.9 mile Hawksbill circuit is pretty and an easy walk. There are other maps here, if you want to look around, but those are the ones I've done.
For hikes, I'd say Old Rag is the only one with not-weekend advisories. The others are much less travelled.
I've only ever been to wineries on weekends, and they're busy, but not too bad. Some of the ones I've enjoyed:
Horton - huge winery. Supplies grapes to a lot of the smaller wineries. Take this one slow.
Barboursville - also large; has a super-high-class restaurant that I've never tried.
Cooper - smaller, some good basic wines.
Delfosse - the place with the crêpe thing. We're going here already.
White Hall - classy place. Good wine.
Blenheim - newer winery, owned by Dave Matthews, actually.
First Colony - more basic wines, fun place.
King Family - also a super classy place. They have a polo pitch. It's kind of insane. The wine is excellent.
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